"Docking" Quotes from Famous Books
... or even harbours, where they have scarcely a foot of water more than their draught; and as docking, as well as launching large ships, requires a close calculation of height of water, the state of the barometer becomes of ... — Barometer and Weather Guide • Robert Fitzroy
... up. The judge went back to the court-room so indignant he sentenced a prisoner for twenty years, when the law only allowed him to give ten. The supervisors, they took their spite out by docking the school-teachers half a day and cutting off the cranberry sauce from the turkey dinner at the jail. General Trumps got drunk as an owl. The City Councils held an adjourned meeting and raised the water rent on Slocum, ... — Elbow-Room - A Novel Without a Plot • Charles Heber Clark (AKA Max Adeler) |